Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh : An Autobiography - Softcover

Waugh, Auberon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786706392 ISBN 13: 9780786706396

Publisher: Da Capo Pr, 1999

Synopsis

A resounding chorus of "Yes, it will!" greeted the long-awaited American publication of the memoirs of the eldest son of Evelyn Waugh and the best-loved practitioner of what he calls "the vituperative arts" in Britain. As enjoyable and outrageous an autobiography as the best of his father's fiction, Will This Do? takes the reader from Waugh's difficult childhood, through his education first at Oxford and then Fleet Street, to his stingingly funny column at the libelous Private Eye.

About this title

Review:

'Both an exuberant chronicle of English literary life and a very funny sendup.' -- James Atlas, The New Yorker

'Terrifically entertaining...funny, acerbic, and a little sad.' -- Michiko Kahutani, The New York Times

About the Author:

Auberon Waugh is the editor of London's Literary Review and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph. He lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786706392
• ISBN 13: 9780786706396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288